286 62. PLUMBAGINACE^. 



8. CBNTtw'cuiTja Linn. Bastard Pimpernel. 



1. C. niin 'imm (L.) ; 1. alternate ovate acute, fl. nearly sessile, 

 cor. without glands at the base. — K B. 531. — Usually very 

 minute. St. usually prostrate. Oor. veiy small, pale rose- 

 colour. — Damp sandy and gravelly places. A. VI. VII. 



E. S. I. 



Tribe IV. SamolecB. 



9. Sah'olus Linn. Brook-weed. 



1. S. Valeran'di (L.) ; 1. obovate or roundish blunt, upper 1. 

 blunt with a point, racemes many-flowered ultimately elongated, 

 caps, subglobose. — E. B. 703. — Remarkable in this Order by 

 its oal. adhering to the germen and by having a crown to the 

 small white corolla. — Damp watery places. P. VII. VUI. 



E. S. I. 



Order LXII. PLTJMBAGINACE.^. 



Oal. 5-cleft, persistent, inferior, plicate. Cor. regular, 5-fid 

 or nearly 5-petalous. Stam. 5, hypogynous, or adnate to the 

 base of and opposite to the pet. Ovary free, of 5 carpels, 1- 

 ceUed, 1-seeded ; ovule 1, pendulous by a stalk arising from 

 the bottom of the cell. Styles 5. Fr. a utricle. Seed in- 

 verted. Embryo in the axis of farinaceous albumen. Radicle 

 superior. — Stip. 0. 



1. Statics. Fl. spiked. Oal. scarious above. Cor. 5-parted. 

 Styles glabrous. Caps, not bursting. 



2. Abmbeia, Fl. in a head with an inverted cylindrical 

 sheath. Styles hairy below. Gaps, not bursting. 



1. Stat 'ice Linn. Sea-Lavender. 



* L. pinnately veined. Cal.-segm. with intermediate teeth. 



1. 8. Lim6nium (L.) ; 1. elliptic-oblong stalked mucronate 

 1-ribbed strongly vemed, st. subterete branched above corym- 

 bose, spikelets 1 — 3-flowered ascending forming dense 2-ranked 

 patent or recurved spikes, oal.-segments entire acute, outer bract 

 pointed rmmded on the hach. — jB. B. 102. — St. 6 — 18 in. high, 

 usually not branched in its lower half, often not until near the 

 corymbose top. Spikes short; spikelets densely imbricate. 

 Fl. purplish. — /3. S. serotina {Q. & G.); pan. lax much spreading. 

 Sy. E. B. 1157.— Muddy salt marshes. /3. Southern coast. P. 



vn.— IX. E. s. 



